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Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65
Known for his roles in Batman Forever, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Tombstone, the prolific actor’s cause of death was pneumoniaAlan Evans (The Guardian)
Spinopsys 🇦🇺🇨🇦 (@spinopsys@aus.social)
Simples, don’t provide services. Don’t clean, take out the garbage or fix a backed up toilet. Don’t do front office jobs. Deny them labour and let them stew in their own filth. https://www.cnn.Aus.Social
looking at you, Ericsson (Swedish telco giant who just removed DEI from their annual report):
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Skamligt av Ericsson att böja sig för Trump
Det är inte upp till Donald Trump att diktera personalpolitiken i svenska företag. Att telekomjätten Ericsson viker sig för presidentens skrämselpropaganda ärAndreas Cervenka (Aftonbladet)
Unsure Calculator: calculate with numbers you're not sure about
Pretty neat!
Unsure Calculator
The Unsure Calculator is an online tool that lets you calculate with numbers you’re not sure about.filiph.github.io
Paraguay recalls ambassador to Brazil over espionage revelations
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5348805/paraguay-brazil-espionage-south-america?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Habe mal wieder ein neues Nerd-Projekt: Ein eigener Stratum 1 NTP-Zeitserver. Warum? Weil es geht. Die Daten kommen per GPS und haben dadurch eine Genauigkeit im Bereich von Nano-Sekunden. Der Testaufbau läuft, jetzt muss ich nur noch ein passendes Gehäuse drucken und eventuell die Antenne noch draußen positionieren.
#NTP #Zeitserver #RaspberryPi #Chrony
@adingbatponder Ich habe mich zum größten Teil an diesem Projekt hier orientiert. Insbesondere bzgl. des Displays.
Bei mir läuft das auf einem RasPi 4 und ich habe noch eine RTC integriert. Außerdem werte ich die Daten in Grafana aus.
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GitHub - domschl/RaspberryNtpServer: Stratum-1 time server with Raspberry Pi and GPS
Stratum-1 time server with Raspberry Pi and GPS. Contribute to domschl/RaspberryNtpServer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Hello friends. The dreaded and long awaiting blog on WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE CYBERSECURITY JOBS MARKET has arrived.
tisiphone.net/2025/04/01/lesle…
I'm sorry.
Lesley, What Happened to the “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage”?
Are you stressed out right now? I’m stressed out. Most Americans are, and cybersecurity job seekers are definitely not an exception. I do a ton of career mentoring and career clinics, and I s…Lesley Carhart's Cybersecurity Blog
taking this opportunity to hype public institutions:
Water needs you.
Edu needs you
Your city needs you.
you wont be a pen tester. probably not a SOC analyst. but youll have fun, learn a ton, go bald, turn grey, and maybe even save a life.
That's spectacular: The partially eclipsed Sun rising over the St Lawrence River in Quebec, captured on March 29. Video by Jason Kurth.
(I sped up the footage 4x for the impatient...like myself.)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250401.ht… #space #science #art
APOD: 2025 April 1 – A Double Sunrise from a Partial Eclipse
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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"Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where the Cabinet texting about war plans on a nongovernmental messaging app is “not a big deal,” but an op-ed in a school paper is a threat to national security."
this nails: it theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
unpaywalled: archive.is/TnnfT
Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine.
All Americans should defend campus protesters.Xochitl Gonzalez (The Atlantic)
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Based on my recent experience reentering the U.S. from Canada (across the Peace Bridge), I completely believe this. I’m a U.S. citizen but the hostility was palpable and inescapable. The border guards made it very clear that my brief sojourn into Canada was highly suspect if not downright treasonous.
From: @Greengordon
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Fellow Canucks, do not go to the USA:"In multiple instances since mid-February, families with young children have been detained in cells at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
"An Investigative Post reporter personally confirmed one of those family detentions. In that case, the family was held for two weeks."
investigativepost.org/2025/04/…
@SpaceLifeForm
There aren't many ways I can resist the unspeakable evil that now pervades the U.S. federal government, but this is one.
Donald Trump' s tariffs have persuaded me to make larger purchases on the other side of the border. Both because these tariffs amount to a tax that supports this unspeakable evil and to bullying meant to compel Canada to surrender its sovereignty.
One thing I'm consistent about is my quite longstanding opposition to imperialism, whether of the U.S. or other varieties.
Why the LM741 Sucks
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Why The LM741 Sucks
First of all, we’d like to give a big shout-out to [Afrotechmods]! After a long hiatus, he has returned to YouTube with an awesome new video all about op-amp characteristics, looking at the r…Hackaday
I kind of have to go with top gun as my favorite role here just because of the namesake but... Honestly? It probably shouldn't even be in my top five. Dude was a goddamn legend.
variety.com/2025/film/news/val…
Val Kilmer Dead: Star of 'Batman Forever,' 'Tombstone' Was 65
Val Kilmer, star of "Batman Forever" and "Tombstone," has died. He was 65.Pat Saperstein (Variety)
Blue is the color of the day. Here it highlights the earliest, most distant known galaxy.
When the universe was just 2% its present age, this galaxy was already full of oxygen & well-developed stars. Somehow it grew up astonishingly quickly--we don't know how.
eso.org/public/news/eso2507/ #space #science #nasa #esa
Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy
Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0.www.eso.org
2 April 1890 | German Jew, Siegfried Fuchs, was born in Leipzig.
In November 1938 he was arrested in Sachsenhausen. After his release he emigrated to Belgium. He was interned & finally transferred to Drancy.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 3 November 1942 & murdered in a gas chamber.
Layoffs begin at US health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department have begun receiving notices of dismissal in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.Carla Johnson (AP News)
I enjoyed this idea that authoritarian states are more like the movie Brazil than the book 1984 - because authoritarianism breeds incompetence.
observer.com/2025/02/terry-gil…
Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell
Gilliam's vision of totalitarianism as both evil and bumbling, with parallels to our current dystopian moment.Noah Berlatsky (Observer)
West Virginia lawmakers introduced a resolution declaring the Bible to be the "divinely inspired, inerrant foundational document for our society and government." INERRANT! Thankfully, that resolution just failed. My earlier article here: www.friendlyatheist.com/p/wv-republi...
WV Republicans want their Cons...
WV Republicans want their Constitution to say the Bible is a "foundational text"
A proposed amendment says the Bible is the "divinely inspired, inerrant foundational document for our society and government."Friendly Atheist
The National Center for Science Education says the resolution "died in the House Judiciary Committee when a deadline for bills to pass committee expired." ncse.ngo/proposal-wes...
He gave me one of my first, truly safe jobs and opportunities as a PA for a project he was working on years ago. He made it a point to say “I want to see more Black women in this industry…” and then proved it with his actions. I got to hug him last year after not seeing him for sometime. We spoke via iPad. He was incredibly proud of me. This is all that matters. Honored to know this man. I am truly glad he is free.
variety.com/2025/film/news/val…
Val Kilmer Dead: Star of 'Batman Forever,' 'Tombstone' Was 65
Val Kilmer, star of "Batman Forever" and "Tombstone," has died. He was 65.Pat Saperstein (Variety)
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I have a story of never watching top gun til I got that internship, then seeing it for the first time and understanding the meaning of life. lol.
He walked the whole road. Sending love to the super fans. He was a wonderful man.
Fellow Canucks, do not go to the USA:
"In multiple instances since mid-February, families with young children have been detained in cells at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
"An Investigative Post reporter personally confirmed one of those family detentions. In that case, the family was held for two weeks."
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Inside Herman's Head 1x01 Pilot
way before Pixar did Inside Out, there was this short-lived but lovable sitcom.
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@intransitivelie so this is an example of what I'd consider a cute prank?
They probably sent an email out to their user list that said "issues with 600 MHz instrument" this sort of thing happens all of the time and that school has multiple instruments so at most it elicits a response of "oh, I should read the email before I book instrument time today". And the link goes to something that is immediatly apparent as joke for anyone familiar with the instruments. And they did a bunch of cheesy photo shop to really run the joke into the ground and write a whole narrative about it while using terms that get tossed around about major NMR disasters.
Sorry, You Don’t Get To Declare ‘Case Closed’ On War Crime Planning Over Signal
Remember when government officials discussing sensitive information over unsecured channels was treated as a national crisis worthy of endless investigations? Apparently, those days are over. While…Techdirt
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The "Harz Roller" #museum in #SanktAndreasberg - dedicated to the history of the local industry which bred, trained, and sold domestic canary birds - provides a deep gaze into the German soul.
It is something deeply German to take an obscure hobby and make it into a mass phenomenon with obsessive attention to detail.
universalhub.com/2025/farm-pla…
#AllandaleFarm #Willard #Boston #bovine
Farm plans celebration of life for beloved Scottish Highland steer; seeks volunteer who can play the bagpipes to help send him off
Allandale Farm is planning a celebration of life on Sunday for Willard, one of their two Highland steers, who died this past weekend. In e-mail to farm supporters, the farm writes: Read more.Universal Hub
Attorney General Bonta Joins Coalition Opposing Federal Legislation That Would Create Substantial Barriers to Voting
OAKLAND — As part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced sending a letter to congressional leadership in opposition to H.R. 22, known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
US friends. Let’s make this the big one. Let’s flood the streets. PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP.
Find your local protests:
Note that you don’t need to sign up to protest. Just go. In fact, you’re better off not signing up.
If you go to a protest:
privacyguides.org/articles/202…
If you feel like the protest you’re going to will be less friendly:
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a-de…
Be safe. Be strong. Drink water. Fuck fascism.
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #HandsOff #ElbowsUp
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them.Hands Off!
Trump and Musk's backing wasn't enough to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5345862/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel-election-results?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr
When used Cybertrucks hit $10k Simone Giertz is going to turn one into a regular car.
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2865261
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Absolutely, anyone who voted for him is done as far as I'm concerned. I was thinking more of the people who didn't vote for him but think he's doing okay with regard to immigration. They might plead ignorance, but as you say, at this point, even if it's true, it's no excuse.
Crawford Beats Schimel in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Crawford Beats Schimel in Wisc...
Crawford Beats Schimel in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Race turned into a national election and a loss for Elon Musk and Donald Trump.Urban Milwaukee
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Unknown parent • • •At least they say “pan” and not “bun”